Improvement in carding-engines



. UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

A..D. SHATTUCK, OF GRAFTON, MASSACHUSETTS.,

IMPROVEMENT IN cARDlNc-ENGINES.

Specification forming partof Letters Patent No. 15,784, dated September 23, 1856.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, A. D. SHATTUCK, of Grafton, in the county of Worcester and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Oarding Engines, of v which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the Aannexed drawings, making part of this specilication, in Which- Figure l is an end view; Fig. 2, a front View.

My invention has for its object to'strip the main cylinder of the ordinary carding-engine continuously and constantly Without the necessity of interrupting the operation of the card for the purpose and Without producing the least breaker unevenness of the lap; and lnyinvention consists in the use of a stripper or clearer to the main cylinder, in connection with a doier which isitselt in turn stripped by the main cylinder, by which means the cotton is all taken off the latter and is immediately returned thereto, as will be hereinafter more' fully explained.

In the said drawings the parts indicated in red, having nuo immediate reference to the subject of my present invention, Will require V no further description.

stopped nor causing any break or interrup-` tion in the lap.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The stripper B, in combination with the doier C and With the main cylinder of a carding-engine, operating in the manner substantially as herein set forth.

A.D. SHATTUCK. Witnesses:

J. H. SMITH, EDWD. N. FooTE. 

